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- Citizens, Investors and Legislative Circus Poodles
- Blown Away by Former Detroit Mayor James Cavanagh's Ghost
- News Release: MichiganVotes.org Offers 2009 "Missed Votes Report"
- Why State "Economic Central Planning" Fails
- A Lost Decade for School Budgets?
- Happy Birthday Dr. McCracken
- Allow Full High School Access to Two-Year Colleges
- Taking the Initiative on Health Care
- Focus on the Day Care
- Happy Birthday, William Gladstone
- Court to hear e-mail case
- Profile of a Tea Partier
- The Court of Public Opinion
- Tenure reform or not?
- Students spread cheer
- Your Favorites: 2009
- Hard Science Being Traded for Political Science
- Balancing Their Problems on Our Backs
- ‘Talent search’ in Alpena
- Tough Questions to Ask Your School District
- Busting Your Michigan Industry Myths
- Alabama Betrayal: Congressman Provides Tea Party Lessons
- That Same Old Story
- The Mitten State Waves Goodbye
- The Health Care Bill Is Full of Stocking Stuffers
- 2011 funding gap $1.8 billion
- American Greetings Says Goodbye to Michigan
- Main Forecast: Hoping for a 'Broken Clock' Moment
- Enviros vs. Union Jobs: House Dems Choose Enviros
- Passing the Torch
- 'Race to the Top' Realities
- Dropout law will challenge districts
- Port Huron: Emergency or not?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 22, 2009
- Public School Funding, Consolidation Discussed
- Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Case Proceeding
- IMPACT Winter 2009
- Education reform passes
- The Great Charter School Debate
- ‘Pay-to-plug’ in Birmingham
- ‘Race’ language will include more charters
- Michigan Still Has Highest Unemployment, But …
- Bad Hangovers, Bad Memories, Bad Taxes
- High-Flying Home-Schoolers
- Are Schools Underfunded?
- Welcome, MDFER!
- Trustee says threats led him to resign
- Spending Tobacco Revenue Like There’s No Tomorrow
- Tea and Tourism Subsidies
- Safer at Home?
- Rebutting Gaffney on PA 312 and Binding Arbitration
- Playing Favorites
- Film Subsidies — Smokin'!
- More Money After Bad
- News Release: Michigan Department of State Police Misses Two FOIA Deadlines, Including One Related to $6.9 Million Fee for Earlier Request
- Federal school funding intact
- Bring Parental Choice to Detroit Public Schools
- Stop the Madness!
- My Heart Is in the Highlands
- FOIA Fail
- Michigan Capitol Confidential Correction
- Pellston: Not so fast on Race
- Stabilizing Blight?
- GOP Senators, SEIU Taxpayer Giveaways, Campaign Cash and More, OH MY!
- Green School Bill Another Black Mark for Legislators
- Why State Economic Development Programs Fail to Fix Michigan
- Political Careerism Spawns New Corporate Favoritism Opportunity
- Howell Education Association v. Howell Board of Education
- Hundreds volunteer to teach DPS students
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 15, 2009
- Norman Borlaug: An American Hero
- Expenses Consume Prop A Funding Increases
- Legislative Proposals Revealing of Michigan's Plight
- Is Another Credit Card the Solution to Detroit’s Spending Problem?
- ‘Restraint’ law abused, group says
- Global Warming "Consensus" Crumbling, Michigan Senate Passes More Indoctrination
- School cut delayed
- Soft Corruption in Carbon Trade Turns Hard
- What It Doesn’t Take To Grow Michigan
- Story on Film Subsidies Ignores the Full Picture
- Charter School Expansion: House-Style
- Utica split on furloughs
- School District Consolidation Talk in Lansing
- Districts share budget ideas
- Who Wants to Know?
- A Capital Idea
- Politicians Begin to Choke on Ethanol Myths
- Littmann: Michigan Can Recover
- Districts adjust programs, staff
- Higher Education “Underinvestment” Provides a Return
- Political Careerism the Root of Growing "Economic Development" Empire
- EPA, Not CO2, Is the Danger
- Lighten Up
- Salters: We don't oppose reform
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 8, 2009
- Healthcare Rationing
- David Littmann Discusses Michigan's Unemployment
- Ethanol and HSAs Explained
- The Michigan Climate Coincidence: Channeling Goldfinger
- Um, What's the Opposite of "More"?
- How Michigan Could Save $3.5 Billion a Year
- Two More Ideas for Fixing Michigan
- Government Lobbying on the Rise
- MEDC Subsidies Questioned
- Bloomfield Hills Sings the Blues
- Environmental Policy Initiative
- ‘Vote no,’ some Detroit teachers urge
- The Source of the School Budget Quagmire
- Dear Tax Raisers: Please Tell Us Where to Cut
- A Christmas Wish List for Michigan Policymakers
- Michigan School Privatization Survey 2009
- Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative
- Bill would alter teacher tenure
- Smith Tax Hike Solves Non-Existent Problem
- Schools: More funding or less spending?
- Interview With Sanford Ikeda
- Relationship Problems
- Michigan Has Best Job Growth Since 90s, But…
- Health Insurance Bill
- Ousted trustee returns by appointment
- Michigan Privatization Report
- Is That Your Final Answer?
- Living Here in Allentown
- Asian Carp
- House Bill 5319 Attacks Private Property Rights
- MEA reports $124M pension debt
- A Growing Disaster
- Unions Nix Job-Saving Plan
- How Bad Is the Housing Market in Michigan?
- Property Takings by a Court Are Still Property Takings
- The MEA's LM-2 Report for 2008-2009
- Tidbits From the MEA's Recent Financial Report
- School reform clears Senate panel
- Bus Pass
- Race to the Top now top priority
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 1, 2009
- 2009 MEA Union Revenue: $83.01 Per Student
- Young Guns Join the Drive
- SEIU/MASC: Curiouser and Curiouser
- Ethanol Subsidies Create Problems
- Student loss not always job-related
- Crocodile Tears Over Deer-Hunting Legislators
- My Pre-Existing Condition
- Teacher accused of pawning laptop
- Charter expands to elementary
- Teachers want to help save jobs
- UM Economists' Cloudy Crystal Balls
- 'Climategate' Raises Questions About Money in Science
- Program combines engineering, service
- News Release: Huron Valley Schools Posts Check Register
- What's Hiding Under the MASC?
- The Overton Window Opens to Another Audience
- Capitalism Is Consumer Protection
- Graduated Income Taxes Hurt State Growth
- Center Scholars Cited on Economy, Environment, Education and More
- Day Care in Wonderland
- Jackson eyes insurance changes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 24, 2009
- K-zoo Taxpayers May Ante Up for New Sports Arena
- Glenn Beck Highlights Mackinac Center’s “Overton Window”
- Center Cited in Detroit, Grand Rapids
- More Day Care Providers Speak Out
- MEA, AFT both want new CMU members
- Are Schools Underfunded?
- Sherry and Dawn's Story
- Unions unhappy about ‘Cadillac’ tax
- "Light Pollution" = Law Pollution
- Hillsdale offers severance
- MEGA Madness and Big Labor Contradictions
- Division apparent on health care pool
- The Top Ten Things People Believe About Canadian Health Care, But Shouldn’t
- MEDC-SEIU Arrangement Still Raising Questions
- News Release: Almost Half of Michigan's Largest School Districts Embrace Spending Transparency
- Jackson eyes insurance changes
- A MEGA Delusion
- New Tax on Garbage Should Be Trashed
- Auto Industry a “Bit Player” in State Fiscal Woes
- Alabama Blows Away School Funding "Crisis" Smoke
- Center Scholars Discuss Dollar, State Spending
- What The...?
- Film Subsidy Is Political, not Economic
- State Legislators Need All the Facts on Film Subsidies
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 17, 2009
- News Release: House Testimony Claiming Mackinac Center Support for Michigan Film Subsidy 'False,' Says Senior Economist
- Educators review budget options
- Politically Powerful Special Interest Gets Special State Tax Break
- The Luckiest ZIP Code in Michigan
- 'Pirate Radio' Capsizes From Lack of Weight
- From South Detroit to Shockandawe
- Stimulating! Ten New Congressional Districts in Michigan!
- LaFaive 'Has Plenty of Ideas,' According to NRO
- Charters gain market share
- Will Michigan Sit Out This Race?
- The First Raindrops Fall
- Bad Policy Doesn't Taste Better With Tea
- Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling
- Dear Tax Raisers: Please Tell Us Where to Cut
- Introducing the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation
- More Flint students in charters
- Nothing 'Liberal' About Defending Government-Class Privileges
- 'Live Free or Die' State Chooses 'Die'
- Flanagan: Solve your differences
- Inspiration or Desperation?
- Data Mining
- Are Detroit City Retirees Being Taken Advantage Of?
- Some Perspective on '20j' School District Funding Cuts
- 'Little Pink House' Sacrificed for Nothing
- John Dingell: The True Face of Health Care Reform
- Our Educational Investment
- Public Sector Unions — The New Tammany Hall
- MEGA Tax Credits Are Not Without Cost
- ReImagine winners named
- State Ignores $600 Million for Schools
- Michigan: “A+” for Corporate Welfare, “F” for Economic Growth (Revised Version)
- Breaking the Doctors
- A Real Canadian Speaks Out
- Power Plays
- Canadian Medical Tourism
- Canadian Doctor Lotteries
- Canada Wait List
- Oh Canada?!
- Epic FOIA Bill Provides Amusement
- Michigan’s Juiced Revenue System
- Pew Center Is Wrong on Michigan, Right About Trend
- Demanding More Transparency in Government
- MEDC Untruths Reveal Political Nature of 'Jobs' Department
- Panel would review school boundaries
- Weak States, Strong Government Unions
- No Thanks, I'm Full
- Removal of Boardman Dams Has Negative Environmental and Energy Impacts
- A Fatheaded Policy
- Kalamazoo's Taxpayer Arena
- School Funding Myths
- Dancing With the Government
- Stimulus money: Now or later?
- Senior Skip Day
- What Price Information? Try $7 million
- Center Ideas Featured in Detroit News
- MichiganScience No. 11
- Universities pay for Promise
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 10, 2009
- Ballot Proposal Is About Mining, not Water
- Cuts to the Classroom
- Michigan: “A+” for Corporate Welfare, “F” for Economic Growth
- What a Web Tax Collectors Weave
- The Tragedy of a Bad Feng Shui
- Mackinac Center Cited in Wall Street Journal
- IMPACT Fall 2009
- Health Savings Accounts Can Save Michigan Money
- U Prep to pay for college
- Public Trust Should Not Be Trusted
- What a Teacher Pay Freeze Really Means
- A Museum You Don’t Want to Miss (20th Anniversary)
- Teacher elected to school board
- Voters turn down new school tax
- Where's the Love for Our Fiscally Conservative Governor?
- Bad Medicine
- Russ Harding on WMKT
- Social Welfare Payments Do Not Make a Strong Economy
- Judge: Flint can leave MESSA
- Reed Cited on Free Speech and Elections
- House committee: Spend stimulus now
- Capitalism: A Muddled Hatchet Job
- Detroit Votes for Change
- Russ Harding on WTCM
- Getting Money, Saving Money
- Grand Ledge eyes spending cuts
- Is Green the New Color of Fraud?
- Two recalls in Romeo
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 3, 2009
- Lawrence W. Reed Inducted Into JA Hall of Fame
- New Client for Mackinac Center Legal Foundation
- Water Initiative All About Banning Mining
- Columnist Cites Michael Van Beek on School Consolidation
- Michigan Messenger: Kersey Correct
- Candy giveaway part of larger plan
- Cast Your Vote for Limited Government
- Anti-millage signs removed, replaced
- More students in meals programs
- Recall Reversal of Fortune
- Not As Good As You Think
- Superintendent: State should cap health costs
- Art Needs No State Subsidies
- The Horror of It All
- Successful Film Incentive Would Drain Entire Treasury
- Some Politicians Want It Both Ways on Environment
- Taxpayer Debt to Pay Government Retiree Health Benefits
- Michael LaFaive Rebuttal in Detroit News
- Lawsuit to End DHS Practice of Diverting Funds From Child Care Subsidies Should Move Forward on Merits, Argues Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Director
- Bobb staying on at DPS
- MEGA Stories
- The (False) Hope of School District Consolidation
- Local Right-to-Work
- Coverage of Michael Tanner Speech at Northwood
- German Study Shows Green Energy Comes at a High Cost
- "Slashing" Economic Development Staff? Please Sir, Can We Have Some More?
- A Real Canadian Health Care Experience
- Preschool: Some more worried than others
- News Release: Nationally Known Speaker and Author on Health Care to Discuss 'Obamacare'
- Jobs Braggadocio
- Leaving Some Key Facts Behind
- Reed Receives JA Honor
- Mackinac Center Forum on Health Care Coverage
- Latest Charter School Expansion Bid: Pay Ransom
- Michigan Government Grows Despite State Budget Woes
- NCLB case dismissed
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 27, 2009
- News Release: Nationally Known Speaker and Author on Health Care to Discuss 'Obamacare'
- Food Stamps and Dyseconomics
- How Big Is Michigan's Government, Really?
- Center Media Highlights
- Illness affects MEAP schedule
- Ten Things to Look for in Health Care Reform
- Doctor Shortages Coming to a Country Near You
- Career courses now offer academic credit
- Want to Grow the Film Industry? Grow the Economy
- “Dis-Unity” Studios?
- Shanghai Surprise: The Unionization of Home Day Care Providers
- Center Cited on Prevailing Wage
- Coincident Indicator?
- Urgent Care
- Granholm announces more school cuts
- Changes to Michigan Wetland Law Same Old Song
- Latest MEGA Expansion Won’t Improve Michigan
- The State Budget: Why the Wait?
- Is it The Wall Street Journal or The Onion?
- Mackinac Center in the News
- Governor pitches need for taxes
- Union Interferes in the Provision of Health Care
- The Public Gets It on Climate Change. Why Don't Politicians?
- This Should Get Their Attention
- Timid Government "Efficiency" Commission Report: The Good, Bad & Ugly
- Michigan Tops Unemployment For 43rd Month in a Row
- Mackinac Center in the Media
- Guns on campus up for debate
- Media Advisory: Mackinac Center Hosting Forum on Canadian Health Care, Impact of "Universal Care"
- Eureka! Michigan Budget Problems Solved!
- Center's Legal Foundation Cited
- Governor nixes '20j' payments
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 20, 2009
- News Release: Four Mid-Michigan Public School Districts Open Books
- The Corporatism of Nike and Apple
- Check One Off "How to Save $2.2 Billion" List — Governor Vetoes "20j" Money
- Foul Ball
- Center Cited on Jobs (or Lack Thereof)
- Teacher, district settle for $106,000
- Fix Public Employee Law to Avoid City Bankruptcies
- Union nixes public bargaining
- Enviro-Indoctrination
- Waldorf School helps with tuition
- Mississippi Not Burning
- Summer of Discontent: Stimulus Money Leads to Payday Mayhem
- Michigan Is #7 in Income Growth, But...
- Center MEDC Study in National Spotlight
- A Better Choice: Patient-Centered Reform
- Superintendent: Teacher behavior ‘deplorable’
- Turning Michigan Around
- Labor Issues Highlight Center Media Coverage
- Teacher pay an election issue
- Pushing on a String
- Energy or Dirt?
- Mackinac Videos: What Canadians Want You To Know About Their Health Care System
- Shared services may be in schools’ future
- Mackinac Videos: New Episodes! Canadians Hurt by Their Health Care System Speak Out
- Home Sweet Dome
- How to Fix Michigan? Cut Cost of Living, Working and Investing Here
- Legislature Adopts Center's Quest for Transparency
- Governor Inflates Stimulus Jobs by 84 Percent
- Roadmap to Nowhere
- Most jobs 'saved' were in education
- Online high school growing
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 13, 2009
- MCLF Defends Home-Based Day Care Workers
- Assumptions and Realities
- Terror on the Boardman River
- Mackinac Center in the News
- Colleges say evaluation is unfair
- News Release: DHS Declines to Defend Merits in Mackinac Center Lawsuit
- Business Owner Says Value of State Incentives Is Wrong: State Appears Right
- State Pols Fear Warming While Crops Freeze
- "Government Is Not Reason, It Is Force"
- Free-for-All
- MEGA Database Updated
- Teaching Requires Testing
- Come Fly With Me: Will Detroit City Airport Get Dose of Fiscal Sanity?
- Bing's Gambit
- Gov. Granholm, Tear Down the Anti-Coal Order
- Michigan K-12: Below Average Income, Above Average Costs?
- Moviemakers Risk Biting the Hand That Feeds Them
- Center Cited on Teacher Pay
- Gov. Granholm Takes Washington Post for Ride on “Jobs” Numbers
- Combining Ag With DNR and DEQ Bad News for Farmers
- Mackinac Center in the News
- Massachusetts Coverage Update
- Government Money, Government Menu
- How Does $10 a Month for Insurance Sound?
- Congress Gets “Best Health Care on the Planet”— Free
- Governor’s Michigan-Mississippi Comparison is Problematic
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 6, 2009
- The MEA Money Tree
- Is MSU Hyping Project Labor Agreements?
- 10,000 Teacher Layoffs? Let's Try Zero Instead.
- Fiscal Storm Clouds Gathering: State Has Solved Little
- Dillon Insurance Plan Could Generate Monumental Reform
- Michigan Economic Dysfunction Corporation
- Political Anatomy 101 (Viewpoint)
- Motown Magic: Happy 50th
- Center Cited on Teacher Pay
- Center Op-Ed on Nanny State
- Teacher furloughs have parents scrambling
- Michigan gets $945,000 reading grant
- The Price We Pay
- EPA Action Is a Tax on Michigan Power Plants and Customers
- When Is a Tax Not a Tax?
- Bond issue in Hartland
- State to schools: Think outside the classroom
- Teacher Salaries Need a Closer Look for Michigan to Balance the Budget
- Michigan Tax Burden Increases, Census Bureau Shows
- Michael Moore’s Union Dilemma
- "No New Taxes" Budget Mugged by Unions
- Center Cited on State Budget
- Celebrities Need a Voice
- Market-Based Reforms Could Expand Insurance Coverage in NY
- ObamaCare Is Tyranny
- News Release: Mackinac Center Releases Critique of Recent Paper ‘The Retrenchment of the State Employee Workforce in Michigan’
- A Commentary on “The Retrenchment of the State Employee Workforce in Michigan”
- Howell teachers want raise
- Union's Torpedoes Target "No New Taxes" Budget
- Fiscal Storm Clouds Grow Darker, More Ominous
- House GOP K-12 Defectors Identified?
- Budgets: Where's the (Sliced) Beef?
- Punishing the Good Neighbor
- Big Labor Says: "NO CUTS!"
- How Will They Solve the Budget Dilemma?
- Michael Moore and the Michigan Film Incentive: Is There a Happy Ending?
- Pupil Count Day
- AFT picks Detroit over Las Vegas
- You Say You Want a Revolution...
- Lansing Talks Tax Hikes as Michigan Poverty Increases
- The Bills of September
- Faux Savings
- Babysitter's Saga Illustrates Licensure Madness
- "What is the Reason for the Existence of House Republicans?"
- 2007 Redux
- The Bills of September - Bills
- Teacher retirees would get $40,000
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 29, 2009
- What ‘Human Action’ Has Meant to Me: Reflections of a Young Economist
- Medical Professionals Make Bad Climate Prescription
- Center Op-Eds in Detroit-area Newspapers
- Mixed results on academic help program
- The Bone of Contention
- Michael LaFaive Cited on Tax Hikes
- Real estate scandal alleged in DPS
- Quincy signs contract
- A Rebuttal to the MEDC's Wall Street Journal Letter Part III
- Ecorse Officials' Arraignment Highlights Need for Transparency
- Michigan Parents Choose Choice
- The Coming $50 Billion Budget Battle
- Wetlands: Democrats Get it Right for the Wrong Reasons
- Detroit News Highlighting Center's Transformational Reform Ideas
- USA Today Cites Center MEDC Research
- "Tenther" Smear Has a Problem: The Posturing Is Bipartisan
- One Set of Rules for Us — and Another for the Political Class
- Kansas Agencies Stops Helping Pro-ObamaCare Union
- Charter, reform advocates rally
- Political Anatomy 101
- Billions Served
- Tourism Subsidy Beneficiaries Chant on Capitol Steps: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
- DPS Building Scandal Highlights Need For Transparency
- A Rebuttal to the MEDC's Wall Street Journal Letter Part II
- Union Political Power, Not Institutional Shortcomings, at Root of State's Dysfunctions
- School Privatization Can Offset Budget Cuts
- Harding Discusses Cap-and-Trade
- Skating on Potomac River Ice in the Middle of a “Snowe” Storm
- One in 6 NHS Patients Misdiagnosed?
- Don’t Inflict New York on the Rest of Us
- Florida Medicaid Reform Going Strong
- Lawmakers propose $218-per-student cut
- This Is Not Astroturf?
- Are We Being Too Tough on Hollywood?
- A Rebuttal to MEDC Letter in The Wall Street Journal
- Political Anatomy 101
- State Tested, State Approved
- As The Water Rises ... (25 tax hikes in one day!)
- Center Cited on Transparency
- A Cheer for Charity
- ‘When we’re done with you, you will have options’
- Adrian participates in pinwheel project
- News Release: Three Michigan Public School Districts, Two Charter Schools and the City of Portage Open Checkbooks for Public Inspection
- Michigan Median Household Income Falls
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST
- Where Insurance Costs Go Down, Not Up
- 564 Amendments
- Personal Insurance Mandate Is Unconstitutional
- Jackson gives edge to local contractors
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 22, 2009
- Michigan Sets Another Dubious Record
- If You Don’t Like Insurance Companies, Why Subsidize Them?
- Homeschoolers Against ObamaCare
- A Law for Lilly — or Is It Eli Lilly?
- Three charged with election crime
- State Supreme Court won’t take case
- Washington Supreme Court Throws out Med Mal Reform
- The Uninsured in Georgia
- Gibraltar contract boosts drug co-pay
- Mackinac Center Launches Legal Foundation; Sues DHS
- Back to Baucus: Marginally Less Awful
- How Much Will Free Health Care Cost Louisiana?
- Caucus to focus on funding equity
- Journalism or Propaganda?
- Unemployment Rate Increases
- Litigation Backgrounder: Loar v. DHS
- Senate Finance Bill: Only Slightly Less Deadly
- SEIU Requests Contact Info for Kansas HCBS Providers
- Florida Reform Hasn’t Done Much
- I’ll Be Watching You
- Will Doctors Be Forced Into Union Membership?
- Cold, Cruel Insurance Companies
- Government Already Practices Rationing — and Will Do More
- Have LASIK, Will Travel
- Who’s Uninsured and Why?
- District sues over tax ruling
- News Release: Mackinac Center Launches Public-Interest Law Firm
- The Future of Health Care in America:
A Roundtable Discussion
- If You Can't Tax Coal, Kill It With Regulation
- Opening a New Front in the Battle for Freedom
- Minnesota Governor Makes Health Reform Charge
- A Little Media Bias on Health Reform for You?
- Kennedy School Cites Massachusetts Reform as a Model
- Looking for reform? Don’t look to BCBS-Michigan
- New Info on the Cost of Obamacare
- Who cares about your health care?
- White House: Public Option Will Cause Private Market to Shrink
- Alternative Ways of Paying for Health Care
- Lotto would cover college costs
- Brighton teachers to pay more for insurance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 15, 2009
- Recent Health Care Facts and Fallacies
- Rhode Island Medicaid Reform Could Be Costly
- Fact-Checking the President’s Speech
- Appealing to the Insured
- Let’s Be Honest and Call It Welfare, Not Insurance Reform
- Minnesota Web Site Allows Price Shopping for Health Services
- Are Public Universities a Good Analogy for the Public Option?
- Unintended Consequences: How a Popular Reform Would Lead to Unpopular Results
- Losing Choice in More Than Just Health Care
- The Cost of National Health Reform to Florida
- Mental Gymnastics and the President’s Speech
- Oakland: Property decline means cuts
- Bad Public Policy Built on Bad Data
- Oklahoma Reviews Cost of Insurance Mandates
- Shikha Dalmia's Take on Health Care Speech
- What's in the Bill?
- Republican Leader: Not Just “No.” We’ve got alternatives, says Pence
- Baldwin ready with scholarship money
- Green Jobs Fad Means More Government Intervention
- Governor's Proposal: Equivalent of 58 Percent Surcharge
- More Mandates in Michigan
- Irony
- Swine Flu Frenzy
- Employer Mandates Kill Jobs, Reduce Incomes, Decrease Private Coverage
- When Spending Other People’s Money, Waste Is Inevitable
- US Does Not Lead World in Rising Health Care Costs
- Lives shattered by government health insurance
- Pay More, Get Less! What a Bargain!
- Responses to the 27th Health Care Speech by Obama
- Analysis: Health pool could save millions
- Paul Kersey Discusses PERA
- President Obama’s Big Proposal
- Live-Blogging the Health Care Speech
- When State Government Fails
- The Two-Handed Menace to Private Health Care
- Alabama Traps More Children In Government Care
- Building-for-tuition swap in Hancock
- MEDC President: LaFaive Is Right
- Is There a Doctor in the County?
- Health Policy Alternatives in North Dakota
- Subway at a School Near You
- Price Controls, One Provider at a Time
- Bus drivers stay on in Adrian
- News Release: Public School Support Service Privatization Increases 5.4 Percent in Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 8, 2009
- Poverty is 2009 national debate topic
- Take a Closer Look at Issues With Canadian Health Care
- Advice From the Nanny State (Viewpoint)
- MEDC Should Become Transparent — or Disappear
- School Privatization Survey Shows Gains in Support Service Contracting
- Christian school closes in Burton
- Home-schoolers do well on standard tests
- Smoking Bans Violate Property Rights
- Tea and Astroturf
- State or federal, protectionism hurts
- Michigan Legislator Invokes the Tenth
- Georgia Legislators Say “No Thanks!”
- Reverse the Status Quo to Liberate Health Care
- Massachusetts Reform Results: Delays, Costs Explode
- Doctors fed up with government, insurance companies
- Fabricating the Facts: The MEA’s New Health Insurance Study
- More schools make AYP
- Fabricating the Facts: The MEA’s New Health Insurance Study
- Health Care Straw-Men
- Government health care + U.S. tort system = tax-funded lottery
- Building on Today’s Insurance Environment
- Obama’s Health Care Reform Plan to Be Revealed
- Michigan Government Employees Face Few Visible Health Care Costs
- The British “Death Panels”
- One Million Receive “Cruel and Neglectful” Care Under NHS
- What to do about Medicare
- News Release: Michigan's Public Employee Relations Act Undermines Democratic Principles and Adds to Cost of Government, According to New Mackinac Center Study
- Thumb area schools dispute MESSA
- Michigan's Public Employment Relations Act: Public-Sector Labor Law and Its Consequences
- Push for Green Jobs Ignores Economic Realities
- State Campgrounds Need Help From Private Sector
- Gadhafi for Auto Czar?
- Mackinac Center Health Care Roundtable Sept. 16
- New "Bipartisan Tax-Hike Cover" Panel?
- Trick, or Treat
- Budget deal includes more Mackinac Center ideas
- Retail Clinics Score High on Quality Metrics
- Four-Party Talks and Health Care
- Health Care Reform Is a Tax Increase
- The Moral Imperative of Getting Health Reform Right
- Does the “right” want to throw Cheetos-scarfers under the bus?
- West Virginia Governor Gets It — Partly
- If Government’s Involved, It’s Not Free Market
- Saginaw debates use of MME scores
- The West Bank of the Detroit River
- Medicaid May Drive Sales Tax Hike in Arizona
- Political Combat and Language
- Sally Pipes on the Realities of Canadian Health Care
- Health Care Policy, the Video
- How About More Non-Government Options?
- Shifting Public Opinion on Obamacare
- Dillon State Health Plan Details Released
- District wants health care cap; teachers picket
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 1, 2009
- The Michigan Economic Development Corporation: A Review and Analysis
- Young Voices for Freedom
- Longer School Year Won’t Improve Student Achievement
- High-Speed Rail Will Take Michigan Nowhere Fast
- End-of-Life Choices and Government
- Open Wallet, Get Less: Some lessons from a universal vaccination program
- A Distinction Without a Difference
- State health plan details released
- MEDC Ineffective, Nontransparent and Should Be Eliminated, According to New Mackinac Center Study
- The Michigan Economic Development Corporation: A Review and Analysis
- ‘Neighborhood schools’ bills move
- Union head alleges retribution
- Paternalism in Action
- The U.S. Pays More, and Gets More, for Health Care
- Hospital Bed Shortages Lead to 4,000 Births Outside Maternity Wards in UK
- Flagging Down a Lawsuit
- Iowa Gubernatorial Candidate Touts Health Care Cures
- Minnesota Insurers Roll out Price-Shopping Site
- Prescription Drugs — Denied!
- Schools venture into alternative energy
- Seeing the potential in deaf education
- Prescription for Reform Should Include End to Third-party Payer System
- Lower Spending on Health Care Comes at a Price
- Why Doesn’t the President Start His Own Insurance Company?
- Private Enterprise v. Free Enterprise
- When Hospitals Kill Patients
- To Expand Access, Make Health Care a Market Good, Not a Right
- More Subsidies, Less Privacy
- Public vs. Private Is the Wrong Focus in Reform Debate
- The Ethical Problems of Government-Ruled Health Care
- Delaware Drug Dispute Settled
- Parlez-vous Francais?
- Want Some Competition? Open Up the State Lines
- DPS to ask voters for $500 million bond
- A Recipe for Failing Schools
- Health Reform Bills Would Put an End to Choice
- Stupid Is As Stupid Does
- Fat Old Lawyers
- But Is It Constitutional?
- Personal Choices Affect Health Care Stats
- Medicare for All as the Golden Calf: Catholic priest on the idolatry of the religious left
- The Ad ABC Doesn’t Want You to See
- Georgia Shows the Way
- Consultant: 200 schools in red by 2011
- How Much Will This Cost?
- Texas Gave Tort Reform a Chance
- Beware of Official Cost Estimates of New Health Plans
- Empower People, Not Insurance Companies
- Ending the Oligopoly
- Christian, public schools share teachers
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 25, 2009
- News Release: Carman-Ainsworth, Lakeview, Birch Run School Districts Post Checkbooks Online
- July/August 2009 Michigan Capitol Confidential Articles
- Michigan knows the costs of government health care
- Help You Live, No; Help You Die, Yes
- Rising Insurance Premiums No Surprise
- Insurer Plays “Mother, May I?”
- Massachusetts + Personal Mandate = Highest Premiums in U.S.
- You’ve Got Questions, They’ve Got Answers
- Keeping Your Insurance When You Can’t Keep Your Job
- Howell: MEA skewed truth on privatization
- Bank says no on school loan
- Manistique bids to be ‘demonstration district’
- ObamaCare is just the latest “Great New System”
- Enshrining Health Freedom in the Constitution
- Learning From the States at North Dakota Policy Forum
- Where Do Your United Way Dollars Go?
- Road commission hires students
- The Legacy of Rose Friedman: Champion of Liberty
- A sign of the state of waiting lists in Canada
- Brian Dickerson: “Why do I have to pay for Cheetoh-scarfers?”
- This Is About My Children
- Minnesota Legislator: Our Medicare Problem Requires Upending YOUR Private Insurance
- New York: Don’t Dump Medicaid Expansion on Us
- Nebraska VA Hospital Needs Major Repairs
- Algebra II bills move
- Ballot Proposals Cast a Pall on Michigan
- Learning from TennCare
- Tennessee Gov. Says “Don’t Cost Shift to Me”
- Pharma Can Live Under Price Controls; Medical Innovation Won’t
- GR teachers sign contract
- Splitting the health insurance bill
- Canadian doctors’ top priority: overhauling their health-care system
- North Dakota to Offer “Create a Mandate” Simulation
- Bye-Bye “Public Option,” but So What?
- Postitive Steps to Health Reform
- The end of the "public option"?
- Students billed for Promise costs
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 18, 2009
- News Release: Mackinac Center Economist: Film Incentive Possible Job Killer
- Who’s to Blame in Smoking Argument?
- Apparently Not Aware of Medicaid, Medicare’s Problems
- Will health care reform increase choice for Michiganders?
- Retail Clinics Continue to Expand
- You Can’t Expand Personal Choices Through More Government
- Preschool on again in Kalamazoo
- News Release: Mackinac Center Posts Hundreds of New School Employee Union Contracts Online
- Stimulus dollars fund specialist’s job
- Bridgeport ties bonus pay to AYP
- Longer School Year Won’t Improve Student Achievement
- Schools anticipate funding cuts
- Are Proposals for High-Speed Rail a Boondoggle?
- Will health reform lower costs for Michiganders?
- Is health care a right in America? Is it a right anywhere?
- Rationing by Price Is Better Than Rationing by Rules
- Preventive Medicine As a Cost-Saver Is a Myth: CBO
- Parents sue over school closing
- The Whole Foods approach to health care reform
- School accreditation plan hits snag
- Delay Your Fines for Free?
- What’s “normal” in Canadian health care
- Most seniors not 'college-ready'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 11, 2009
- Heat of the Battle
- Promise Zone work begins in Lansing
- Washtenaw to ask for two mills
- Strike talk in Detroit
- Schools move to November elections
- Advice From the Nanny State
- Audits: Millions in waste at DPS
- Pontiac may push for stimulus flexibility
- Are Medical Markets an Inherent Failure?
- Facts *are* stubborn things
- “Let’s not try to sell a government-run plan using free-market rhetoric.”
- Leslie keeps MESSA; no raises
- 20/20 segment on health care reform
- With government health care, sometimes you can’t go home again
- Detroit’s Schools Are Going Bankrupt, Too
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 4, 2009
- On Balance, School Health Insurance Proposal an Improvement
- Michigan charter school law
- Jackson Learning Lab: The Hope of Success for All Learners
- States Rebelling Against Nationalized Health Care
- So much for “You will be able to keep your plan. Period.”
- If you’re going to suffer, please do so quietly
- Massachusetts Should Not Be Michigan’s Role Model
- The EFCA Rodeo
- Longer School Year Won’t Improve Student Achievement
- Diminishing Private Sector Keeps Supporting Bloated Public Benefits
- Teachers divided on fast track certification
- Guerilla infiltration of Canada’s health care system: Don’t get sick on Sunday
- Milton Friedman Legacy Day
- On future insurability
- Addison to apply for construction loan
- Ball of Confusion
- Great video set
- Wrestling coach files suit
- A Legislator’s Model Apology
- MEGA, the MEDC and the Loss of Sunshine
- Health care costs and bankruptcy
- Freedoms you’ll lose under the congressional reform plan
- News Release: MEGA and MEDC Growing “Aggressively Less Transparent,” Says Center Analyst
- More groups back statewide health plan
- A MEGA Loss of Sunshine
- You get what you pay for in health care
- 83-year-old Swedish woman too old to receive treatment
- Make-or-break millage in Saugatuck
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 28, 2009
- Detroit’s Schools Are Going Bankrupt, Too
- Teacher massage scam alleged
- MEGA Annual Report 1998
- On Balance, School Health Insurance Proposal an Improvement
- Stimulus pays for lunch equipment
- National Heritage continues expansion
- Two Michigan legislators pledge to read health care bills before voting
- The reality of health care cost estimates
- With 53 percent opposed to it, why rush health care reform?
- News Release: Norwood Township and Two More School Districts Show Michigan the Money
- E-mail exchange part of recall controversy
- Combining DNR and DEQ Wrong Solution
- Report: States should rethink master’s pay
- IMPACT Summer 2009
- State Committee to Consider Mandatory Fire Sprinklers in New-Construction Michigan Homes
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 21, 2009
- Dillon plan opens debate
- AG: More charters legal in Detroit
- A Fire Sprinkler Mandate in Michigan?
- Obama pushes for fast reform
- Policy varies on hiring family members
- Unemployment, Migration Statistics Underscore Failure of MEDC, Says Mackinac Center Economist
- Staggering Statistics Scream for Dramatic Policy Changes
- Lutheran school may close
- Cadillac cuts Great Start
- The Nature of Teachers Unions
- Massachusetts to cut coverage for legal immigrants
- Health Rations and You
- Dillon: Overhaul public sector health plan
- Detroit City Council’s Flying Circus
- MME scores mainly unchanged
- Van Beek named Mackinac education policy director
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 14, 2009
- DPS hires turnaround firms
- Cap-and-Trade and Health Care
- Materials From Grand Rapids Roundtable
- Privatization leads to recall
- Too Big to Succeed?
- Lessons From Mutants
- Stimulus spending decisions begin
- Markets provide low-cost alternatives for uninsured
- NICE in America?
- Massachusetts vs. Georgia
- Board won’t pursue tenure hearing
- Budget questions stall negotiations
- John Goodman on the social cost of health reform
- Parsing the health care reform myths
- Obama’s top five health care lies
- Muskegon settles on health plan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 7, 2009
- Diminishing Private Sector Keeps Supporting Bloated Public Benefits
- Acton reports on Health Care Roundtable
- “Obama-Care’s” Unintended Consequences
- News Release: Check Registers Now Online for Plymouth-Canton Schools and Six Other Districts
- CEPI: 2008 grad rate is 75 percent
- Detroit: The Triumph of Progressive Public Policy
- A Perfect Storm: Batten Down the Hatches or Drown
- Transparent Failures
- Flawed MSU Film Subsidy Report Misleads Taxpayers
- Stimulus pays youth for career training
- Recall under investigation
- The Only True Freedom Is Freedom for All
- There ain’t no such thing as free health care
- “Don’t mess with my right to medical choice.”
- High costs of universal coverage
- Lieberman doubtful about public option’s prospects
- Ypsilanti adopts deficit budget
- Open Secrets: Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act
- When We Should Break a Promise
- Algonac considers outsourcing
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 30, 2009
- Taxing health benefits isn’t a bad thing — if it’s done right
- Bankruptcy next for DPS?
- Open Secrets: Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act
- Health Savings Accounts Can Save Michigan Money
- Health Care Horror Story: Premature baby must cross border for care
- More health care cuts
- One way to get health insurance
- On Michigan’s proposed health reforms
- GR revamps alternative programs
- Is Buying a Chrysler or GM Vehicle Unpatriotic?
- The costs of mandatory insurance
- ACLU: School discipline is uneven
- Pay hike, premium contribution in TBAISD
- More reform myth-busting
- Health care reform: fully paid for?
- Union: ‘Ghosts’ probably not teachers
- Great Lakes Water Levels Are Up: Must be Global Cooling
- Budget concerns and care rationing
- Do we need public insurance?
- Romeo budget hinges on concessions
- The Future of Health Care in America: A Roundtable Discussion
- Right-to-Work States Outpacing Michigan
- What does $1 trillion get you?
- Niles home-schoolers create museum display
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 23, 2009
- Government health care unconstitutional?
- School leaders float ideas on saving money
- News Release: Mackinac Center Unveils "Right-to-Work Dashboard"
- Economic Freedom and Human Prosperity
- (Un)covering the News
- Open Secrets
- Health care horror story: Lindsay McCreith
- News Release: The Mackinac Center and Novi Schools Inspire City of Novi to Take Lead on Local Government Transparency
- Applying economics to ed research
- DPS, Doug Ross talk partnership
- An ounce of prevention?
- Will your insurance be safe?
- Vested interests
- Michigan may get its own state-funded insurance
- BCBS seeking a rate hike
- Whiteford expands food privatization
- Like it or not, Obama’s plan is socialized medicine
- Stiffer penalties for striking teachers
- May/June 2009 Michigan Capitol Confidential Articles
- TEA Party Activists Can Keep Their Momentum
- MEA wants ISD to turn over fund equity
- The Refuge: Summer 2009
- Proposal would end Promise
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 16, 2009
- Bargaining details posted; union angry
- A First Step
- Fewer teachers retiring
- Parents, teachers could run schools
- Privatization key to Lakeview budget
- Legislative Alert
- Special Effects: Flawed Report on Film Incentive Provides Distorted Lens
- Longer school year on the table
- Chrysler’s Bailout Will Backfire
- State proposes new school rating system
- Lawrence W. Reed Speaks About Grover Cleveland
- State board considers fundraising
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 9, 2009
- MichiganScience No. 10
- Study: College grad rates average 53 percent
- Mackinac Center Study Defends Eight Budget Reforms Proposed by Gov. Granholm
- When the Union is Your Employer
- Eight Is a Start: Where Gov. Granholm's Budget Recommendations and the Mackinac Center's Agree
- Insurance hikes vary in Pinckney
- News Release: Mackinac Center Study Defends Eight Budget Reforms Proposed by Gov. Granholm
- How to Save $2.2 Billion
- GM Bankruptcy’s Impact on Michigan
- The Eternal Struggle
- TVs a reward for top ACT scores
- The Issues Michigan Must Address
- DPS considering privatization
- Regulatory Revolution Needed in Michigan
- Teachers caught in tenure mix-up
- The Impact of Government on the Auto Bankruptcies
- News Release: Michigan Goes Full Decade Without GDP Growth
- Attorney: Home-schoolers must defend parental rights
- Transparent Failures
- Hospital-turned-school to open in 2010
- Teachers authorize 'further action'
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 2, 2009
- News Release: Elite School Districts Join Growing Transparency Trend
- Math, science center needs more room
- Judge: Official can’t keep both posts
- Arizona expands tuition tax credits
- Proposal would shorten path to teacher certification, for some
- Three Cheers for Transparency
- School Union Denounces "Dangerous Trend" Toward Private Food, Busing and Janitors
- Trustee says she didn’t intend to resign
- Michigan Legislators Must Solve Their Overspending Crisis with Budget Cuts
- DFT chief: Teachers must be open to change
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 26, 2009
- Pontiac school plan ends up in court
- When meeting time is also mealtime
- Stimulus money causes spending arguments
- Tea Party Toolbox
- Another U Prep charter to open
- In the red, Pontiac hires D.C. law firm
- Michigan Exports Are the Bright Spot in the Dark Economy
- Schools grapple with spending
- For Immediate Release: May 20, 2009
- The Impact on Government of the Auto Crisis in Michigan
- Busing goes private in Benton Harbor
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 19, 2009
- Students protest principal’s departure
- Tax incentives under question
- David Littmann Discusses Michigan’s Economy
- Eating veggies in Taylor
- Teacher PAC case at Supreme Court
- Economic Freedom Matters
- How to Save $2.2 Billion
- Duncan: Bing should take over
- Mackinac Center Releases Labor Law Guide for Charter Schools
- Senate Bill Would Rein In State Regulatory Agencies’ Powers, Says Center Analyst
- Leveling the Playing Field
- Monroe pays less for health insurance
- Be Careful What You Ask For
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 12, 2009
- Henry Ford Institute to open Texas campus
- Littmann: 'Unemployment in Michigan will be approaching somewhere between 17 and 20 percent by the end of this year'
- The Economic Impact of the Auto Crisis on Michigan
- Superintendent: MESSA too expensive for us
- Compromise on D.C. vouchers
- Voters say no in Saugatuck
- Union candidates win in Wayne-Westland
- “Horrible” $304 Million Budget Cut is 1.05 Percent of State Revenue
- Parents wait for charter openings
- Six strategies key to school reform
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 5, 2009
- School Districts Statewide Embrace Transparency; Roadblocks Remain in West Michigan
- Michigan Privatization Digest - May 4, 2009
- Swine flu closes schools
- Don’t “Fix” Budget With Graduated State Income Tax
- Gov. Granholm Offers Seven Proposals That Refocus “Essential Purposes of Government”
- Governor Makes Right Call on Returning Wetland Permitting to Feds
- DPS: Merit pay and strike talk
- Charter buys church property
- News Release: State Attorney General Agrees That Michigan Film Office Violated State Law by Failing to Disclose Required Film Spending Information
- Schools shouldn’t use race, poverty as excuse
- Mackinac Center Analysts Express Concern Over Announcement of Chrysler’s 'Surgical Bankruptcy'
- Special Effects: Flawed Report on Film Incentive Provides Distorted Lens (State Senate Testimony)
- Mackinac Center Analysts to Testify at State Senate Hearing Today on Michigan Film Incentive
- DPS principals under review
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 28, 2009
- St. Clair RESA to open virtual high school
- There’s More to Michigan Than the Auto Industry
- Teachers pay more to keep MESSA
- Survey: Teacher satisfaction up
- Districts (quietly) consider consolidation
- Anonymous donor gives MSU $10 million
- Those Who Cherish Liberty Must Fight the Government Bubble
- Stephenson Schools Show Michigan the Money
- Troy goes private, Rochester does not
- Harding and Braun on "Spotlight On The News"
- Merger talks end in Arenac County
- GR: 'H' plan didn't turn around grades
- School Service Privatization: Survey 2008 Map
- Green Jobs: Field of Delusions
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 21, 2009
- Legislative Alert
- Michigan Unemployment Since the 2007 Tax Increase
- Tea Parties and Policy Revolutions
- Paynestaking Aim at the Political Class
- Few home-schoolers at MSU
- Retirement fund losses will cost schools, but how much?
- Capac talks continue
- High school has reopener clause
- Layoffs in Southfield
- Walk This Way
- Groups disagree on charter performance
- Clerical workers leave MEA
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 14, 2009
- The Scene and the Unseen: Act IV
- The Government Bubble
- IMPACT Spring 2009
- School officials travel at taxpayer expense
- Layoffs, closings and philanthropy at DPS
- T.S. Eliot, Russell Kirk and the Moral Imagination
- Troy considers private busing
- School reform bills introduced
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 7, 2009
- Campus “Business Ethics” and “Sustainability Scolds” Hide Real Agenda: Politics
- GM Bankruptcy: End of the Road or New Super Highway?
- Tax Day Highlights Burden of State Government
- State Parks Must Change or They Will Die
- Schools claim robotics title
- March/April 2009 Michigan Capitol Confidential Articles
- Mackinac Minutes: Spring 2009
- Attempts at Government Efficiency Are Misguided
- Schools-of-choice racism alleged, denied
- Stimulus funding released
- Math scores up, others show minor change
- Breaking Bad Breaking the Bank
- Slight increase in tuition tax credit programs
- Michigan Senate “Class Warfare” Exposes Ignorance of Small Business Realities
- Report: Removing bank subsidies would up Pell Grants
- Mackinac Center President Emeritus Lawrence W. Reed Will Discuss “Lessons from the Great Depression” at CMU
- MichiganScience
- MEAP writing test written off
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 31, 2009
- GM Bankruptcy: End of the Road or New Super Highway?
- Future teachers eye education reform
- "Beyond the Bars": A Video Summary of a Mackinac Center Forum
- President’s Merit Pay Idea Merits Attention
- MEA pension plan set aside
- DFT: Change attitude on charters?
- Ask the Economist: Resorts, Visas and Deadweight Loss
- House Effort to Reverse Coal Plant Moratorium Is Principled and Necessary for State’s Energy Demands, According to Mackinac Center Analyst
- Judge agrees with Vestaburg on bond issue
- Keep Democracy, Prevent Fraud Through Worker Elections
- Privatization debate in Adrian
- Issues and Ideas Forum, March 25, 2009
- School pension invested in AIG
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 24, 2009
- Grand Blanc reopens contract
- Michigan’s Many Tax Ranks
- Board weighs retirement plan
- Muskegon to give away buildings
- Charter report: Grad rates up, tests neutral
- Cheap Housing Could Be Michigan Art’s Best Friend
- News Release: David Littmann to Speak About State and National Economies at MSU
- News Release: Film Office Report Violates Michigan Law and the Spirit of Sunshine Week
- Private tuition grant needed, backers say
- The Scene and the Unseen: Act III
- News Release: House Minority Leader Sets the Transparency Standard
- The shell game of ‘making AYP’
- No contract yet in Grand Rapids
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 17, 2009
- Legislative Alert
- All-day kindergarten in Battle Creek Lakeview
- School Pension Boost Proposal Exposes Political System’s Dysfunctions
- Happy St. Patrick's Day!
- School Pension Boost Proposal Exposes Political System’s Dysfunctions
- Gladstone recall halted
- MEA not ‘universally’ opposed to merit pay
- Students expelled in teacher/drug case
- MichiganScience No. 9
- Must schools use money to keep teachers?
- Five Principles That Are Violated by the Bailouts
- News Release: Sunshine Week an Ideal Time to Make Public Payrolls Public
- MEGA Competition: Brewer’s Tax Credit Distorts Competition
- Pontiac to lay off 700-plus
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 10, 2009
- More med schools, no more doctors
- Protecting Employees and Taxpayers From Unions
- News Release: Romeo Community Schools and Chippewa Valley School District Post Check Registers Online
- Retirement costs headed up
- They Won’t Tell You Who is Getting YOUR Money
- Digging Ourselves a Deeper Hole
- Dragging ‘Em Down to Our Level
- The State of the State You Should Have Heard
- Home-schoolers adjust to recession
- Charter school needs more room
- Rolling the Dice: How Workers Can Arrange a Secret-Ballot Vote Under EFCA
- The Mackinac Center's 20th Anniversary Gala
- East Lansing Business Owner Speaks Out Against Property Rights Abuse
- Superintendent: Deficit spending must stop
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 3, 2009
- Michigan Privatization Digest - March 3, 2009
- Jail-based academy offers GED
- News Release: State Government Paid $17.6 Million to Unions in 2008, According to Documents Secured by FOIA Request
- Stories My Legislator Told Me
- Assessment plan gets mixed reviews
- Teachers get raise, pay more for insurance
- Farmers want school customers
- A Trillion Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
- KCC calls meeting on charter
- Bond-for-sinking fund swap proposed
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 24, 2009
- GR union slams school board on audiotape
- Charter report favorable, state board wants more
- January/February 2009 Michigan Capitol Confidential articles
- District weighs alternatives to alternative ed
- Bill would open state health plan to schools
- The Refuge: Spring 2009
- Coal Plant Moratorium Another Economic Blow
- More school choice in Utica
- Senate Bills Would Bring More Transparency to MEDC
- Lansing sees promise in Promise
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 17, 2009
- Merit pay takes center stage
- Huron Valley taking bids
- Catholic school will market itself
- Property Takings: Susette Kelo and Beyond
- Muskegon debates athlete GPA
- Grapes of Wrath (Short Version)
- MichiganScience No. 8
- News Release: New Legislators Show Up Veterans by Providing Office Spending Transparency
- DPS predicts payroll shortage
- New Legislators Embarrass the Veterans
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 10, 2009
- ISDs plan cuts, share superintendent
- The importance of a sound economic education
- An economic stimulus for the mind
- New Che Guevara Biography Is Short on Fact, Long on Fiction
- Where Is the Brownfield? (Viewpoint on Public Issues)
- Good News About the Bad Economy
- MichiGONE: New Migration Data Dark and Portentous
- New Jackson charter proposed
- Where’s the Brownfield? (General Article)
- Saginaw fund balance disappears
- Detroit charter ‘adopts’ KU
- The UAW Can Help the Detroit Three Save Money and Face
- Vouchers proposed in Georgia
- Wayne-Westland settles on raises, health concessions
- News Release: Gov. Granholm Proposes Nine Expansions and Six Limitations of Government in 2009 Delivered State of the State Address, According to Center Analyst
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 3, 2009
- State of Crisis
- Mackinac Center Tally of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations in State of the State Address Available Tuesday Night
- Pension plan too costly, administrators say
- Schools line up for ‘small high school’ funding
- Michael D. LaFaive's "2009 State of the State Address": A Video Summary
- Mom pledges $500,000 to private school
- The Scene and the Unseen: Act II
- Academy closes, students moved to night school
- Au Gres, Arenac consider consolidation
- The Terminator Aims to Destroy Detroit Autos
- Health plan savings at $550,000
- Michigan’s Economic Dreams Subsi-Dying on the Vine
- Retire now for better pension?
- Legislative Alert
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 27, 2009
- Bobb named DPS money manager
- News Release: Unemployment Rates Lower in Right-to-Work State
- Schools Should Stick to Basics and Resist Green Fad
- Mackinac Center’s Solution to Poverty: Prosperity
- Ingham ISD proposes cuts
- What Michigan Needs
- English as a second language
- Teacher resigns in Facebook flap
- Jackson opens online courses to home-schoolers
- News Release: Property Rights Champion Susette Kelo and Author Jeff Benedict to Discuss New Book at Issues & Ideas Forum
- Health insurance divides Caseville
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 20, 2009
- The "Beyond the Bailout" Auto Forum: A Video Summary
- Customers ask for details on potential Blue Cross hike
- "Comcast Newsmakers" Interview With Jack McHugh
- Board implements health plan; union may sue
- Goofing Off at Ford — A National Emergency?
- Detroit Private Initiative
- Michigan School Privatization Survey 2008
- Promise Zone bills signed
- Superintendent gets $100,000-plus separation deal
- Mackinac Center Scholars Provide Policymakers and Voters With 101 Recommendations to Revitalize Michigan
- The Mackinac Center's “Beyond the Bailout” Auto Forum
- Board votes for higher-priced union labor
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 13, 2009
- Live Simulcast of "Beyond the Bailout" Forum
- Parents question Chippewa Valley spending
- Government Stimulus Packages Harmful in the Long Run
- News Release: “Beyond the Bailout”
- Court backs union, privatization ‘chill’ debated
- Teacher/coach jailed on sex charge
- News Release: School Privatization Should not be Hampered by Today’s Federal Court Ruling on Grand Rapids Case
- Private school to focus on teen dropouts
- News Release: State Government Equivocates on Cost of Michigan Film Incentive Program to State Taxpayers
- Waiting to Exhale: Regulating CO2 a Good Way to Move Economy into Depression
- The Scene and the Unseen: Act I
- Michigan gets C+ in national report
- Where There’s Smoke, There’s Smuggling
- Survey: Do voters want a new high school?
- Michigan Privatization Digest - January 6, 2009
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 6, 2009
- What Is a Free Economy?
- Budget crunch hits metro schools
- News Release: Transparency Project Director Asks Macomb County School Districts to Publish their Checkbook Registers
- Student Uprising
- Cigarette Smuggling Rampant in Michigan
- Collecting the Rent
- Tough Choices Ahead for Workers
- Online classes get a boost in some districts
- Eimi Mine